Space is a fascinating topic that attracts adults and children alike! It is also a topic that can be quite confusing for our kids… especially since much of what they know is centered around books that they’ve read or cartoons that they’ve watched on TV. In my classroom, I usually like to begin a new topic of study with something familiar. That’s why I usually start off our space unit with the Sun, the Moon, and the Earth. These are all words and concepts that our students are familiar and comfortable with. After sharing and discussing EVERYTHING we know, or THINK we know, about these 3 celestial bodies we watch a Brainpop Jr. video on the Sun and discuss any misconceptions we may have had and any new facts we learned. Over the next few days, we repeat this same procedure with the Moon … and then the Earth… Next up…. the students work on creating a model showing how the Earth and Moon orbit the Sun. This comes from my Space Freebie resource which can be located by clicking any of the pictures below… I love this activity because it allows the students to manipulate the Earth and Moon. […]
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Mission: SPACE is an attraction in the Future World land of Epcot at Walt Disney World in Florida. It's a 5.5 minute motion simulator ride that demonstrates what an astronaut might experience on a space
Rotation Of The Moon Around Earth
This week we started our unit on space and we’ve been having SO.MUCH.FUN learning all about the Sun, the Earth, and the moon! Can I just tell you how impressed I am by how much information my kiddos have learned in just a few short day… It just goes to prove that when kids are engaged, learning takes place To begin our unit, I decided to tackle one of the biggest MISCONCEPTIONS I noticed my class was having…. Many of the kids believed that the Sun travels around, the Earth. Can you blame them? I mean every morning on my drive to school I see the Sun rising in the sky. I can totally understand why they think this. They “see” the Sun moving in the sky every day. So logic tells you, it’s the one traveling… Right, not quite! To help my kiddos explore this idea a little further, I decided to have them create their very own models. (Feel free to download your own copy here.) They started off by coloring pictures of the Sun, Earth, and moon. While doing this, we talked about the obvious size differences between each. The kids were shocked to […]
Сегодняшний день навсегда вошел в историю как день, когда нога человека впервые ступила на поверхность Луны. Ровно 48 лет назад, 21 июля 1969 года, Нил Армстронг высадился на спутнике Земли, первый
One of the trickiest, yet most important, Astronomy concepts for children to understand is the Earth-Moon-Sun relationship. The idea of rotation and revolution, while extremely basic, is the foundation of understanding motion in our solar system. These three objects have the greatest impact on ...
Bright planets and an orbiting moon! Enjoy them on these August evenings.
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✓ Why do we always see the same side of the Moon? • This phenomenon is due to a process known as tidal locking. • The Moon's rotation period is exactly the same as its orbital period around Earth. • This means that the Moon rotates on its axis once every 27.3 Earth days, which is also the time it takes to orbit Earth. • As a result, the same side of the Moon always faces Earth. . — Rizwan Ayub Saadi . #rizwanayubsaadi #earth #moon #planet #astronomy #astrophysics #space #spacetime #universe
The scary prediction comes from Dr Jason Barnes, a planetary scientist at the University of Idaho. If the moon and Earth collide, the energy released in the merging would melt the Earth into a magma ocean.
China plans to put astronauts on the Moon and send probes to Mars and Jupiter. Why the grand plans?
Okay, I'm behind...very behind. I have the most wonderful student teacher working in my classroom this month, and I seem to be a bit of a cr...
